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Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability Affecting X.Org Server For 18 Years

Phoronix - Wed, 10/30/2024 - 01:47
CVE-2024-9632 was made public today as the latest security vulnerability affecting the X.Org Server. The CVE-2024-9632 security issue has been present in the codebase now for 18 years and can lead to local privilege escalation...

Crucial Pro DDR5-6400 32GB Kit Performance With Intel Arrow Lake

Phoronix - Tue, 10/29/2024 - 22:42
Earlier this year Micron announced the Crucial Pro DDR5-6000 memory for AMD and Intel desktops and catering to gamers. With the newest AMD Ryzen 9000 series (Zen 5) and Intel Core Ultra Series 2 (Arrow Lake) processors out there and enjoying even faster memory, today Micron announced the Crucial Pro DDR5-6400 memory kits for greater performance. In advance of today's launch I have been testing the Crucial Pro DDR5-6400 32GB Kit (16GBx2) UDIMM Kit (CP2K16G64C38U5B) and have some initial benchmarks to share from the new Intel Core Ultra 9 285K Arrow Lake desktop.

Fedora 41 Releases Today With Many Shiny New Features

Phoronix - Tue, 10/29/2024 - 19:16
Fedora 41 is ready for release today as a wonderful update to this leading edge Linux distribution...

RISC-V User-Space Pointer Masking Appears Ready For Linux 6.13

Phoronix - Tue, 10/29/2024 - 19:00
It looks like the upcoming Linux 6.13 cycle will be adding RISC-V support for user-space pointer masking and tagged address ABI...

Linux Patches Aim To Further Lower Intel Sierra Forest Idle Power Use

Phoronix - Tue, 10/29/2024 - 18:45
A set of patches are currently under review on the Linux kernel mailing list for helping to further lower idle power use for Xeon 6 Sierra Forest processors...

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